BWF in the News
Veterans with brain injuries join fight to save social service agency: (Chicago Tribune)
March 19, 2010
Greg Rodriguez was once a strong young Marine who dreamed of becoming a drill sergeant. But that was before a pickup truck slammed into his car, causing brain damage that ended his military career and afflicts him to this day.
He is only 26, but walks with the stiff shuffle of an old man. He forgets things easily. His speech is muddled and difficult to understand.
But when he took the floor recently at Chicago's Midwest Brain Injury Clubhouse, a day center for people who have suffered similar damage, he stood a little straighter, spoke a little louder, as the Marine Corps in him burst to the surface. [click here to view] (http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/local/northnorthwest/ct-met-brain-injuries-20100318,0,2203015.story)
